# sylikc/jpegview

Fork of JPEGView by David Kleiner - fast and highly configurable viewer/editor for JPEG, BMP, PNG, WEBP, TGA, GIF and TIFF images with a minimal GUI.  Basic on-the-fly image processing is provided - allowing adjusting typical parameters as sharpness, color balance, rotation, perspective, contrast and local under-/overexposure.

Repository: https://github.com/sylikc/jpegview
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/jpegview
Language: C++
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Topics: image-viewer, image-processing
Last push: 2024-08-09T03:36:52+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2126, "days_push": 754, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2942, forks 181 (observed 2026-08-28T04:07:31.106468+00:00)

## What it is
JPEGView is a fast, lean, and highly configurable image viewer and editor for Windows with a minimal GUI, supporting JPEG, PNG, WEBP, TIFF, GIF, camera RAW formats, and more. It provides basic on-the-fly image processing such as sharpness, color balance, rotation, perspective, contrast, and exposure adjustments.

## Use cases
- quickly view images with a fast minimal viewer
- browse and view camera RAW photos
- apply basic edits like rotation, contrast, and color balance on the fly
- play a folder of images as a slideshow or movie
- view modern web formats like WEBP, JXL, HEIC, and AVIF
- replace the default Windows photo viewer with something faster

## When to choose
- you need a lightweight, fast image viewer on Windows
- you want basic editing tools without a heavyweight editor
- you need support for RAW and modern formats like HEIC or AVIF
- you prefer a portable, highly configurable viewer

## When to avoid
- you need advanced photo editing like layers or retouching
- you are on Linux or macOS since it is Windows-only
- you need a full-featured image management or cataloging tool

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: image-processing, gui
- domain: image-processing, photography, media, desktop-applications
- platform: windows
- tags: image-viewer, image-editor, raw-formats, minimal-gui, slideshow, portable, desktop

## Member repositories
- sylikc/jpegview (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:31.106468+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T07:32:56.446921+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/sylikc/jpegview (fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:31.106468+00:00, sha 061c9890665d)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.